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Blues Music - 1,248 words
... the seventh, and sometimes the fifth
scale-degrees were lowered a half step, producing
a scale resembling the minor scale. (Machlis 578)
There are many nuances of melody and rhythm in the
blues that are difficult, if not impossible to
write in conventional notation. (Salzman 18) But
the blue notes are not really minor notes in a
major context. In practice they may come almost
anywhere. (Machlis 578) Before the field cry, with
its bending of notes, it had not occurred to
musicians to explore the area of the blue
tonalities on their instruments. (Tanner 38) The
early blues singers would sing these bent notes,
microtonal shadings, or blue notes, and the early
instrumentalists attempted to ...
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Citizen Kane: An Accurate Portrayal Of William Randolph Hearst - 1,934 words
... is campaign for governor, Kane met a pretty,
young opera singer named Susan Alexander and
entered into a relationship with her. Then he made
his incredible bid for governorship on an
independent ticket, an office which, for him,
would have been the easy first step to the White
House (Citizen Kane). Once again, the detailed
similarities to Hearst's life were astounding.
Hearst sought public office after his dominance
over the newspaper world was assured. The key
office he sought, and which was denied to him by
attacks by Theodore Roosevelt, was the
governorship of New York on an independent ticket.
Both of the men used dirty and abusive campaigning
methods, portraying their opponents as j ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright - 1,445 words
... John Wiley & Son Inc., 1979, 16 - 18, 153,
215, 347. Art History 5 December 2000 Frank Lloyd
Wright American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright is
considered the pioneer in modern style and one of
the greatest figures in twentieth-century
architecture (Twombly, 16). According to Frank
Lloyd Wright: having a good start, not only do I
fully intend to be the greatest architect who has
yet lived, but fully intend to be the greatest
architect who will ever live. Yes, I intend to be
the greatest architect of all time. It appears
that from the beginning, Frank Lloyd Wright was
destined by fate, or determination, or by his
mothers support, to be one of the most innovative
and celebrated architects o ...
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Margaret Bourkewhite - 1,760 words
Margaret Bourke-White Margaret Bourke-White was
born on June 14th, 1904, in the Bronx, New York.
Her father, Joseph White, was an inventor and
engineer, and her mother, Minnie Bourke, was
forward thinking woman, especially for the early
1900's. When Margaret was very young, the family
moved to a rural suburb in New Jersey, so that
Joseph could be closer to his job. Margaret, along
with her sister Ruth, were taught from an early
age by their mother. Her mother was strict in
monitoring their outside influences, limiting
everything from fried foods to funny papers. When
Margaret was eight, her father took her inside a
foundry to watch the manufacture of printing
presses. While in the foundry, s ...
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Martin Luther King - 2,450 words
... that he soon found himself in that role. His
leadership was not limited to speaking from a
podium, i.e. taxied people during bus boycotts in
Montgomery, Alabama in 1955-56. *censored*From
childhood he was grounded in the idea of a
personal God. He believed in the dignity and worth
of all humans. During his post-graduate years, he
became most influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and his
idea of non-violent resistance. Due to differences
in situations, it was uncertain whether the same
tactics would work, i.e. in India, the majority
was in support of Gandhi where in the United
States the black population is a minority.
Personality develops and grows with us but Dr.
King never lost focus of his goa ...
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